The BEST Arcade Games you were playing in 1982

1982 saw the birth of so many great arcade games, and a few hidden gem games, too. Here's a look at several of them.
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[@JohnRiggs]

Arcade games that came out in 1981 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHebnmChiNWMmaM

[@randomgamer-st1ie]

Ever considered making video game review videos? Seems you're always coming up with new ideas for videos, well there's enough games out there, some with no good reviews. It's literally an endless supply of source material. Most, if not all retro game collectors watch reviews and research games to buy, just an idea.

[@mikeburkhart8336]

1981? Donkey Kong...and others.

[@tonyah.960]

Hello, John Riggs do you play PS4 and Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Road To Boruto? I win the game and got all the "STARS" in Ninja Storm 4!

[@Jincman]

1982 was a really great year for arcade games!

[@PongbyAtari]

This takes me back to 21 years old I had home consoles at this time but was no stranger to the arcades. Bump n Jump was one of my favorites lots of good memories watching this video.

[@ryanyoder7573]

Hastings PA 1983 the local store (not sure which) sold fresh donuts and had a bump and jump game. Forever I’ll associate fresh donuts with that game.

[@PongbyAtari]

@Ryan Yoder it's good memories I love how these videos can take me back for a bit.

[@retrojoe85]

Love the 8-bit style of early 80s arcade games: I simply will never get bored of those specific style! There's something who immediately transfers your mind into that era, what a trip.

[@eoghanmcloughlin2265]

Wow, this video was incredible! John, you are such an amazing curator of classic arcade titles! You truly have an unrivaled knowledge of all the best games from '82. I loved seeing how you excitedly discussed these titles, and it was nostalgic for me to see some of my old favorites on the screen again. It was great to reminisce over some of the classic games I hadn't thought about in years! Your videos keep getting better and better - keep up the awesome work!

[@SophiaNyx]

that ape and paint roller game!!! loved that on atari :):)

[@esmerylan]

I'd forgotten Bagman even existed until I watched this video, I know I played it as a kid but obviously not enough for it to stick with me very strongly.

[@bluestrife28]

Ahh the screams of the Sinistar , always a part of that initial ambience wave that would hit you when you walked in, the sights the sounds the lights. *nostalgic sigh*

[@R3troZone]

I love the older 80s arcade games. I have an Arcade 1Up Space Invaders that I have modded with a 60-1 Jamma board so it has many of these classics on it. My go to is either Donkey Kong or Mr. Do.

[@JGKingCrusher]

Wasn't a big fan of Qbert, but Sinistar always had me. Whenever I went to Putt putt video in Albuquerque, at least one of my tokens would always end up in Sinistar. I sucked at it, but loved it!!!

[@TheSocialGamer]

Bag Man was great on the Commodore 64. I played this for hours on end.

[@msg2743]

SO glad you're doing these types of videos again!

[@JohnRiggs]

Yeah, it's been a while!

[@80skid61]

I enjoyed watching people play these games on Starcade back in the day! Some of these games are on Arcade Archives, but others like Pengo, Bagman, and Mr. Do we will have to wait for.

[@chrisrj9871]

Sinistar as an Assist Trophy would've been amazing! Break open an AT case in the game, white light flies upward, background turns pure black... ... _"BEWARE; I LIVE!"_ or _"I HUNGER, COWARD!"_ or _"RUN RUN RUN!"_ or just _"Rrrr! Rrrr!"_ and down he comes!

[@EvilMyers]

Some of these arcade machines I've never heard of, and I was 11 years old in 1982, the painter one you first mentioned reminds me of Pepper 2 for the Colecovision

[@benkizer9509]

Bagman was a great game. Kind of an early version of Load Runner. I loved dropping the money on the guards or getting in the railcar. Also loved when you lost a life and the guy said "ai yi yi!" in his French accent.

[@WeeFlats]

There is a ZX Spectrum version of Bagman called Gilligan's Gold that is well worth a look, amazing music

[@buckeyechad1]

Hadn't thought of Bagman, Bump 'n Jump, or Pooyan in quite awhile. love them all

[@cronosoft]

There is a home version of Bag Man..... It's Gilligan's Gold by Ocean software on the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amstrad too I believe

[@bezerker99]

Arcades introduced me to gaming back in the early 80s.

[@Perminator1976]

I have vivid memories of playing Popeye at Showbiz Pizza. My favorite place to go as a kid. Had a few birthday parties there. Loved the Rock-afire Explosion!

[@mrdeadscott8270]

I still play Bump n Jump and Burger Time to this day, they never get old.

[@lonster3000]

Mr. Do! was my game! Still is one of my favorites.

[@FreihEitner]

Man, 1982 was a good year for arcade games!

[@marcperreault8440]

1982 was amazing for games! One that I might add to your list is Pepper II . Remember it? Tough but addictive game.

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

So many wonderful games! Never played Do Run Run but a big fan of the other 3.

[@jexthegamer]

Bagman IS a good game! Tough, strategic, and addicting. Two games were on C64, and they're still making new games in the series today.

[@joedufek2810]

Wished they had a home council game for Mr. Do!! Luved that game too - even more than Dig Dug

[@MotherKojiro]

I'm not a big fan of score attack games, so this took me by surprise with how many favorites it has: Bubbles, Burger Time, Dig Dug, Joust, SUPER PAC-MAN; tons of great titles here!

[@HappyBeardGames]

4:34 That is a great animation on eating the ice cream! Awesome topic for a video dude. I need to check out your 81 video and future ones too.

[@aelinstue9431]

Bagman had that on the C64, loved it and same had no idea why I was doing.

[@mccallosone4903]

Ms Pac-man, Dig Dug, Moon Patrol, and my all time favorite '82 game, Burgertime, made for a great year. fantastic

[@mccallosone4903]

Popeye too!

[@oldfartplayingoldgames]

Love the video. I'll definitely have to give some of these games a try. As for Zaxxon, try staying at 1 1/2 on the height meter unless you have to fly higher to get over an obstacle. A 1 1/2, you can shoot them but they can't shoot you.

[@nubatman]

Pooyan, Bump n Jump and Super Pac-Man were my favorites. And honestly the last time I played all 3 at the arcade was nearly 25 years ago.

[@shyrodillasyo]

I used to play moon patrol at the greyhound bus station in California!! Great times 😎👍

[@hellboypi]

Wow, you got me with Domino Man. I've never even heard of it. Our mall had a solitary cabinet (no arcade) for a few years and the two games I'll always remember are Bagman and (DK bootleg) Crazy Kong. Two very odd games for different reasons - but I love them.

[@roguedr0id]

LOL - OMG BUBBLES!!! That was my jam in the 4th grade at my local mom and pop pizza restaurant. They didn’t get it until 86, and I think it only stayed in there for a year..to be honest..I think I was the kid that gave it the most quarters 😂. My step dad bought a used super pac man cabinet for our garage when I was in the 5th grade. I used to play it and Centipede almost daily if I got my homework done.

[@matthewbarry4464]

One more to add for 1982. Frenzy.

[@Savitor]

I love Bagman so much, it's the only arcade machine I own, I have three different Bagman T-shirts... can play for hours on one credit, great game! 🎮👍

[@seanmyster6]

One 1982 arcade game I enjoy quite a bit is Kangaroo. It's a pretty blatant clone of Donkey Kong, even going so far as having monkeys as the main enemies, but it's notable for being an early game besides Ms. Pac-Man featuring a female protagonist.

[@ThunderFist1978]

Yes! I love Kangaroo! And let’s not forget that it even got it’s own segment in season 2 of Saturday Supercade!

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

I was in the womb for most of '82, so I was looking forward to playing Journey Escape. I won on my birthday.

[@jeremiahthomas8140]

I played a lot of 2600 Amidar, too. A lot of these games had good 2600 ports and 5200, too. I have never heard of Bubbles nor Eyes, though.

[@hectormontalvo5565]

So many neat games I played as a 12 years old in NY!👉😃👈

[@The_Badseed]

Man I loved Sinistar. Tron was maybe my favorite from 82. Discs of Tron in 83 was even better

[@pika23]

I used to play bubbles on a midway arcade classics ps2 game. It was on ps1 too. It had tapper,burger time, bubbles and one called food fight, among others

[@ironmaiden5658]

These games are the reason why I built my own arcade cabinet.

[@nahumgardner]

I never knew that about burgertime drops until just now! That's crazy. You learn something everyday.

[@Dargonhuman]

I was born in 1982, so the closest to playing an arcade game was if my mom pushed my stroller past a video arcade while shopping at the mall lol.

[@shyrodillasyo]

I used to play pengo at the Vineland drive in! Great times 😎👍

[@fireproofneo]

Eyes is great! My buddy and I fight over the high score at Galloping Ghost arcade when we are there!

[@dionelr]

Oh yeah! Love me some DigDug. Anytime I see one, I HAVE to play it. I was late to work once because of DigDug. It was worth it. 😂

[@YouTubeAddict50]

Back in 1985, the Straw Hat Pizza in town had a sit down BagMan table. If you unplugged it and plugged it back in, it would start you off with 100 credits ❤

[@JohnRiggs]

Our SkyShark at Red Robin would do the same.

[@danielrhodes7594]

I loved BurgerTime! Sinistar was awesome!

[@mikeburkhart8336]

Donkey Kong Jr.,Burgertime,Bump and Jump,Dig Dug,Moon Patrol ...if I had any quarters left over after playing Donkey Kong and Pac Man.

[@hfield07]

bubble is one of the best arcade games still love playing that

[@nynick716]

Loved dig dug and Mr doo.

[@CaliandoOnDaRiddim]

Do Run Run 😂💯

[@atarileaf]

Awesome video John. So many of my personal favorites came out in 1982. Love these kind of videos. Kudos!

[@youforget1000thingsaday]

My mom had Burger Time for the NES, lol. That was so fun.

[@kbramlett6877]

Mr. Do!, Mr. Do's Castle (known as Mr. Do vs the Unicorns in Japan) Mr. Do's Wild Ride, and the extremely obscure, released as a kit only practically at the beginning of the Great Video Game Crash, Do! Run Run.

[@shyrodillasyo]

Alpha beta supermarket had super pacman oh such great memories! 😎👍

[@AstonsVintageTechnologyWorkshp]

Bagman was ported to the ZX Spectrum under the name Gilligan's Gold by Ocean in 1984. It was infuriatingly hard. Or maybe I was just bad at playing it, whichever. :P

[@johnnyfatsacks5209]

Cool i forgot the name!I remember playing it on Commodore 64 back in the day and loving it.

[@johneygd]

Donkeykong jr and popeye are definitely my favorite ones😁👍

[@thetechn1que518]

I always suspected the game Zoom! for the Sega Genesis was a clone of an old arcade game. Now that I’ve seen Amadar, I can definitely say that’s where it came from!

[@Bobbypinker]

I like hearing when you say a game sucks because it's so rare.

[@kjhoskins]

Holy cow was that a great year for video games. And I'm glad you said Zaxxon sucks. lol. Thanks for the video, John.

[@kbramlett6877]

Mario was known as 'Jumpman' in the original Donkey Kong. It wasn't until after NOA moved from New York to Redmond that he was given his permanent name change. He was named after the landlord of the Redmond, WA. office at that time. On a different note, do you want to know how Kirby got his name? It has to do with the lawsuit Universal Studios filed against Nintendo relating to the original Donkey Kong.

[@HarryPalmerOrchestra]

A lot of these are playable on the SNES with _Arcade's Greatest Hits_ (1996) and _Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection_ (1997).

[@lurkerrekrul]

BagMan - There was a port of this to the C64 called BagitMan. I have no idea if it was official or not. A while bag, there was a homebrew sequel called BagMan Strikes Back. There was also a fairly recent BagMan port to the Amiga. Mr. Do - I don't know if they were official (I assume they were), but all those games were released for the C64. Super Pac-Man - When I got a copy of this (C64), I didn't even know it was an arcade game. I just thought that someone bought the rights to the Pac-Man name and made their own game from it. Zaxxon - The only C64 game I ever had on cassette. The game was good, but it took forever to load. I did get fairly good at that version though.

[@peacefulscrimp5183]

Great video 👍

[@cabbitkisser2620]

i was 9 years old at the time when these games came out. i was too busy playing the Atari at home to notice these games in the arcade.

[@TheDrisk]

Great vids... although Food Fight came out in 1983 I believe? Just been to an arcade place in the UK that has almost all of these machines.. had such a fab time.

[@TheDrisk]

happy to share my vid I took of the arcade place with many of these real arcade cabinets... But I think You Tube keeps blocking the comment. Just reach out to me if you want to see it.

[@selbyjohnson5986]

I’ve never seen Domino Man before but it looks pretty cool!

[@JohnRiggs]

IT's super fun.

[@norwegianjonathan]

Moon Patrol and Bump and Jump for me!

[@crazyclimber80]

Amidar had such great music; I thought the Atari port was ass. Dig Dug will always be my favorite, but Mr. Do I was still playing even into the 90s. I played almost all of these at Wunderland in Portland. Domino Man was crazy fun. Thanks for the time machine!

[@darktetsuya]

bagman I discovered in mame! interesting one for sure. Bump n' Jump I remember renting on NES! was kinda fun. dig dug, what can I say? there was a pizza place I used to frequent that had it and sank a fair amount of quarters into it. I remember popeye on NES when I was first getting into the system! shout-out to the williams stuff I mostly got into via arcade's greatest hits on SNES!

[@jupitermenace9920]

Video games were never as fun to me as this era was. So much cleverness. Of course I've enjoyed games over the decades, but to me, this was the Golden Age.

[@tonyp9313]

That's cuz you're jaded now & probably a kid then. Everything is fun when you're a kid. Truth is, life is so much better in the here & now.

[@jupitermenace9920]

@@tonyp9313 Not THAT jaded. But, yes, I agree things are much better now, my nostalgia notwithstanding.

[@tonyp9313]

@@jupitermenace9920 What I love most about my life now is that I have a job I like. More the direct deposit now every week. It's more of the fact I don't have to deal with the bank teller or wait at a said bank machine to deposit a cheque. I just go online whenever I want to check my money. That is super fast & convinient. Exactly when you buy digital games. You just browse & click whatever game you want. Saves lots of time not dealing with stores to buy them physically.

[@naytonestew7202]

My girlfriend and I would play Robotron for hours! So fun!

[@alexhydell3608]

Alright!! I have been having the crappiest day in months. But a new John Riggs video! Things are looking up

[@tonyp9313]

Sorry to hear that. Hopefully things get better for you.

[@alexhydell3608]

@@tonyp9313 thanks man. But guess what? My day got waaaaaay better.

[@zooropa04]

Sinistar taught us all that life was nothing but pain.

[@ianhilmer2673]

Okay, my review of these games😊. Amidar: Never heard of it Bagman: Never played it when I was a kid, barely aware of it as an adult. Bubbles: Also never knew about this game when I was a kid but now, had played it on emulators and is really good 👍 Burger Time: played it all the time when I was a kid, loved it 👍even though I sucked at it😅. Dig Dug: Played it quite a bit when I was a kid, not as fond of it as much but still nostalgic👍😊. Domino man: never heard of it until you mentioned it🤷‍♂️. Donkey Kong Jr.: played it all the time😊, love it👍 Eyes: never heard of it until you mentioned it🤷‍♂️. Food Fight: was aware of it, never really played it back than😕. Joust: played it all the time😊, love it👍. Moon patrol: barley played it but I remember I liked the music. Mr. Do: played it a bit, but not as much as the others, still good 😊. Pengo: Barely aware of its existence🤷‍♂️. Pooyan: wasn’t aware of it when I was a kid, played it on my bootlegged NES mini and it’s pretty good 😊👍. Popeye: Played it a bit when I was a kid, not a fan than but have become more appreciative of it as an adult👍😊. Q*bert: played it all the time, not my absolute favourite but still great😊👍. Robotron 2084: played it a couple of times when I was a kid, didn’t really like it👎. Sinistar: played it once in the arcade cuz that was the loud one in the back corner and it it really turned me off👎. Super Pac-Man: wasn’t a fan when I was a kid👎but have grown to appreciate it as an adult 👍. Zaxxon: Definitely aware of this game when I was a kid but really didn’t play it🤷‍♂️. P.S., game’s that definitely came out in 1982 that you didn’t mention but I highly recommend are Millipede, Pole Position, and definitely the best one of the year, Tron😅.

[@danielespeziari5545]

I have played most of these games in some form or another, mostly through compilations or in Atari 2600 ports. Certainly not in the arcades because I wasn't born yet 😅 Great and memorable titles anyway

[@jonyak1221]

Man i miss arcades

[@tonyp9313]

This is a great comment without the 80's or 90's being the best decade like in most said comments. They should bring arcades back & have you pay like $10 or $20 & you play as much as you want.

[@mattchalucha894]

8 bit is where it's at!

[@paulscott507]

Rem playing food fight back in the day 👍

[@jimsydnor7878]

I agree with 100% about the Mr. Do complitation set and about Zaxxon sucking

[@insaneasock3156]

Would love a Mr. Do compilation.

[@randomizzer2389]

Super PAC Man is my all time favorite PAC Man game.

[@DarkLordNick999]

I was 6 when I first played Donkey Kong Jr. I had a huge sense of betrayal because Mario was the bad guy. I enjoy it now.

[@MidnightBanshi]

Oh John....so much to unpack here. I would respectfully disagree with you on Zaxxon - I LOVED this game, and played it incessantly! Super Zaxxon was even better, as it was a bit faster, and it had a dragon boss as opposed to the Zaxxon robot. Mr. DO!!!!! Oh yes, this was my GO-TO game in the day (the adrenaline rush of hearing the diamond appear for a free game!), and yes, the 4th game was "Do Run Run" - it was a sort of weird 2.5D top down version of the game. The only 2 I did not play were Eyes and Domino Man, but I played the crap out of the rest of them. Robotron was amazing, and a modern version of that I would think would be Nex Machina. So many great games!

[@SuperBee4406]

You need to check out Mad Planets, Solar Quest, and Star Castle.

[@fatboyshortarms]

Best year for Arcade games i was 15 (:

[@RedTabletTalk]

That’s the year I was born!

[@knightimusprime25]

had moon patrol on the ole 2600 it was a pretty fun game even back then

[@JohnRiggs]

same!

[@claymccoy]

Bump 'n' Jump has pretty good graphics for 1982.

[@RetroGamingNook]

I was 11, and this was the year I lived within short walking distance of two malls and 3 arcades... Goliath's Arcade, Action Family Arcade, and Aladdin's Castle. But I have never seen Eyes or Domino Man in my life. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ??? Great video.

[@allenholman4161]

Loved Burger Time!

[@Something-Waffle]

In 1982 I was too preoccupied with pooping my diapers to play arcade games. I was only a year old at that time. Cut me some slack.

[@jasongretencord3326]

My first 2 button game was Super Mario Bros. I nearly had a panic attack lol.

[@johnriddlebaugh7436]

Many of those (Robotron, Food Fight, Dig Dug) were good games I enjoyed playing. Zaxxon was addictive but the isometric shooter is an acquired taste.